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--- baker_spirit:piano_drops [2019/06/18 07:37] – [1959 Ed Talley] admin
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 ====== Piano Drops ======
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 Winning nomination (and commentary) of the "Baker House Piano Drop" as the top-vote-getter of 150 objects picked to represent MIT over the entire 150-year sweep of the Institute's history:\\
-http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1430
+http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1430 (looks like a dead link)\\
+https://alum.mit.edu/slice/baker-piano-drop-leads-150-vote-countso-far\\
+https://news.mit.edu/2011/mit150-kickoff
+<WRAP indent>
+"The Baker House Piano Drop is a celebration of the student spirit, where a (non-functioning) piano is dropped six stories from the roof of Baker House to the ground below. Originally, the target was Amherst Alley, but after Amherst Alley was moved, the target for the airborne piano is now on the Memorial Drive side of the dorm, in the grassy area between the building and the road.
+Although allegedly timed to coincide with "drop date", the Baker House Piano Drop is actually a combination of dorm spirit, harmless destructiveness, and the willingness to do something difficult just for the sake of doing it."
+</WRAP>
 </WRAP>
 <WRAP half column>
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 ===== Piano Drop 1972 (The First Piano Drop) =====
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+{{:baker_spirit:piano_drops:v92-n42_page_01.jpg?nolink|}}
-pg         : 1972_charles_rosenblatt:start
-title      : Charles Rosenblatt '72
-description: The first piano drop
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-The consensus is that the first piano was dropped in November of 1972.
+{{gallery>:1972_charles_rosenblatt}}
+Charles Rosenblatt '72\\
+The first piano drop
-Bill Short made a movie short of the piano drop, which is on YouTube here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9mT4JaW_0|Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop (The First MIT Baker House Piano Drop, November 1972)]].
+The consensus is that the first piano was dropped in late October <del>November</del> of 1972.
+Bill Short made a movie short of the piano drop, which is on YouTube here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoDsA1WnMAU|First Baker House Piano Drop at MIT (1972)]].
 **Bill writes:**
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----- photogallery link ----
+{{gallery>:1972_piano_drop_rigsbee}}
-pg            : 1972_piano_drop_rigsbee:start
+Piano Drop\\
-title         : 1972 Piano Drop
+Images by Peter Rigsbee '76
-description   : Images by Peter Rigsbee '76
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 ===== Piano Drop 1974? 1975? =====
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+{{gallery>:1977_ted_goetz}}
-pg         : 1977_ted_goetz:start
+Ted Goetz '77\\
-title      : Ted Goetz '77
+Piano drop (probably 1975, maybe 1974)
-description: Piano drop (probably 1975, maybe 1974)
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 **On "where did all the pianos come from"**\\
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 ===== Piano Drop 2005 =====
----- photogallery show ----
+{{gallery>:baker_spirit:piano_drops:2005}}
-namespace  : :baker_spirit:piano_drops
+Piano Drop 2005-04-21
-title      : Piano Drop 2005
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----- photogallery link ----
+{{gallery>:2013-10-25_piano_drop}}
-pg            : 2013-10-25_piano_drop:start
-title         : 2013-10-25 Piano Drop - Baker House
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